Baldwin County GaArchives Obituaries.....Major A. B. Scott January 10 1906
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Atlanta Constitution, Jan. 11, 1906
January 11, 1906
Atlanta  Constitution
MAJOR A. B. SCOTT BREATHES LAST
Death Was Result of Wound Received at the Battle of San Juan
    Milledgeville, Ga. January 10 (Special) Major A. B. Scott, retired, captain 
of Thirteenth infantry, United States army, died at his residence, in 
Milledgeville, Ga., this morning at 9 o'clock. The funeral took place from the 
episcopal church; interment in the Milledgeville cemetery.,
    Major Scott leaves a wife, one child by his first wife - A.N. Scott of 
Pittsburgh Pa. and two daughters, Agnes and Katherine, by his present wife. 
Major Scott was born at the arsenal at San Antonio, Texas, October 19, 1858. 
His grandfather, R.H.K. Whity, was a brigadier general in the United States 
army, and Major Scott lived with and was brought up in the army. 
    In 1876, President U.S. Grant appointed him to West Point Military Academy 
and he graduated in 1880. He was signed to the Thirteenth infantry, U.S.A., and 
he served with distinction through several Indian wars and was wounded in the 
final chase after Geronimo, in Arizona. His service led him through all the 
southwestern states. He was commandant of cadets at the Maryland Agricultural 
College for a number of years. He was commandant of cadets of the Georgia 
Military College when the Spanish-American war broke out He joined his regiment 
and accompanied them to Cuba.
    At the San Juan fight, Major Scott was desperately wounded and was left 
upon the field an entire day for dead. For weeks his family did not know 
whether he was dead or alive. For an entire year he lay in his home in Buffalo, 
N.Y., unable to speak and barely able to move. The wound had entirely paralyzed 
his right side, and his death today was the direct result of this 
wound, as the result of this fight the 13th, left on the filed, or have died 
since, one colonel, one major, three captains, one lieutenant.
    Major Scott was brevetted major for his gallantry in this fight.
    No man ever made a more gallant effort to be useful than did Major Scott. 
Though terribly maimed to the extent of not using one arm at all and walking 
with such uncertain step as to often require the presence of a body servant, at 
arms' length to prevent his falling, still, as long as it was possible, tried 
to fulfill his position as commandant of Georgia's Military College in this 
city. Ever since the late war with Spain, he has lived bravely a life, if 
anything, worse than death. He gave his all to his county and deserved all that 
it could do for  him and his.

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